5 Procedures to Detect Fraudulent Recruitment Letters

“Electronic traps” target job seekers with “fake jobs”

• Fraudsters rob victims of their money by phone or email.

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Citizens and residents of job seekers have confirmed that they have been exposed to various phishing and fraud attempts, by unknown persons or entities, that take advantage of the personal information that job seekers attach in their CVs to well-known recruitment sites locally and globally, explaining that some fraudsters impersonate the names of famous companies. They send phone or e-mail messages that include a “fraudulent” link, asking to click on it claiming to complete pre-interview information, with the aim of obtaining their accounts, photos and profiles, while Bayt.com warns of such messages. , identifying five procedures through which "fake and fraudulent" recruitment messages can be detected.

Citizen Saeed Amer Abu Ammar said: “Two years ago, my son obtained a Bachelor of Commerce, and since then he has been seeking a suitable job opportunity, obtaining training courses in his specialization, participating in employment fairs in the various emirates of the country, and submitting his CV to all participating parties. He also interacts a lot with employment sites, such as (Nafes) and sites of local governments and the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation, but so far he has not had success in obtaining a suitable job.

He added: “On one occasion, after visiting a job fair, he received a call from a mobile phone, telling him that he had been accepted to work as an accountant with a national petroleum company, and during the call, he received a text message, and the caller told him that it was from the company’s human resources department, and he must He has to click on the link below to start registering the employment application, and after my son fulfilled the requirement, he was surprised that it was a fraudulent process to seize his bank account,” stressing that since this incident, he has become keen on direct and reliable dealings with employers.

Amira Sami, an electronics engineer, stated that she frequently interacts with social media platforms concerned with employment, such as "LinkedIn" and "Bayt.com", and others, and constantly uploads her resume to it, in addition to that she always writes down her professional opinions, and markets her ideas on These platforms, until they received an email, stating their candidacy to work for one of the international companies located in the country, and asking them to fill out their data form to complete the administrative procedures, and set a date for the job interview.

She said: "As soon as I received this letter, I had many doubts, especially that the job description offered was greater than my practical experience, and illogical for a company of this size, so I decided to communicate directly with the company, and told them the mail I received, and the surprise was that they had not sent anything regarding jobs since More than a year".

And it is the same trick that was exposed to citizen Saleh Abdullah bin Omar (an employee of a federal entity), who confirmed that he always interacts with professional social media platforms, and has a detailed CV on these sites, not for reasons related to searching for work, but rather with the aim of professional communication with those in his specialty. He pointed out that he used to cite in most of his interventions and comments on these platforms the professionalism of his employer, the quality of its salaries and managers, without indicating that he works there.

Bin Omar stated that he was surprised one day by a phone text message from an unknown number, with a link attached, informing him of his acceptance of a job that suits his specialization within the workplace in which he is already working, and that he had to click on the link to complete the procedures, which raised his surprise, and prompted him to contact the Human Resources Department in an area Work, which warned him against any interaction with this message, as fraudulent.

For its part, Bayt.com reported that some recruitment sites have become a station for electronic fraud on people, which many fraudsters exploit to communicate with people to take their personal data and information about their bank account, calling on those interacting with these platforms from job seekers on the Internet, to It is necessary to review the privacy policy of the employment site, and to ensure that only employers registered on the site can view the contact information of the applicant for the job.

Bayt.com identified five notes or signs through which a job seeker can discover fake employment messages and job offers, the first of which is to receive an email from an employer offering a job offer for a job that the job seeker has not applied for, and the second when conducting research about the company before accepting The job offer, and monitoring that it does not have a website and clear contact data, in addition to the arrival of the email from a Gmail or Hotmail address, or an address bearing suspicious letters, stressing the importance of communicating with the company over the phone, and making sure that they are the ones who sent the mail, in case The job recipient felt any doubts.

The list of five observations included that if a person receives a mail informing him of his selection from among a group of candidates, and that the company will hire him immediately if he sends his full name and bank account data, or sends him a link through which they request access to his bank account data on the Internet, he should ignore These messages immediately, and finally, if the mail is written in an unprofessional manner, or contains many grammatical and spelling errors.

• Fraudsters take advantage of “resumes” to hunt job seekers.

Fraud trap

Abu Dhabi ■ Emirates Today /

Abu Dhabi Police warned job seekers not to believe the lies of fraudsters, who are currently taking advantage of the opportunity to hold official events and events in the country to defraud them by creating pages for fake companies on the Internet as approved recruitment companies, or programs on social networking sites, and allocating them to pay sums As a fee for these bogus jobs, applicants eventually discover that they have fallen victim to fraud.

"Emirates Today" monitored fake websites and accounts outside the country, trying to delude its followers of its ability to employ them in major national companies and government agencies in exchange for payment of sums of money, with various temptations, such as providing housing, travel and transportation allowances, and obtaining unrealistic privileges, which prompted some to Inquire about the validity of these offers, how to apply, and the requirements for obtaining these jobs.

Scammers also impersonate well-known companies as a way to convince victims and gain their trust, and then fall into a "fraud trap", aiming to entrap job seekers from outside the country.

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